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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Januabt 11, 1D06. 



is pretty sure to be looked in upon by 

 every trade visitor to' Chicago. 



Mr. Hauswirth is 44 years of age, 

 born in Germany, December 18, 1861. 

 While a boy he came to Chicago with 

 an aunt who, in 1871, married Charles 

 Reisig, who was one of the pioneers in 

 the trade. In the school vacation of 

 1873, the boy worked in the Reisig green- 

 houses on West Sixteenth street and may 

 fairly be said to have been identified 

 with the trade since that time. In the 

 autumn of the next year he went into 

 the store as errand boy. He continued 

 with Mr. Keisig almost continuously for 

 eighteen years. They had stores at 88 

 and 66 Washington street, at 175 Wa- 

 bash, on State street, and again on 

 Washington street, where the Marshall 

 Field annex now stands, at various times 

 during that period. Joe Curran, who 

 is a few years older than Mr. Hauswirth, 

 was also a protege of Mr. Reisig, and in 

 the store during that time. At the time 

 the Auditorium was completed it was 



active in the Red Men as he has been in 

 the trade organizations. He is at pres- 

 ent chairman of finance in the Great 

 Council of the United States. He is also 

 a large-antlered Elk and participates in 

 most of their frolics. 



In 1882 Mr. Hauswirth married Marie 

 C. Collnot. They have two children and 

 two grandchildren. Mrs. Hauswirth 

 spends part of her time in the store and 

 is her husband's constant companion on 

 convention and other trips, so that she is 

 widely known in the trade. She is warm- 

 hearted, endowed with unusually good 

 judgment, and is friend and counsellor 

 for many outside the family circle. 



FRANK H. TRAENDLY. 



Prior to the Washington convention, 

 the members of the craft in New York 

 City advanced Frank H. Traendly as a 

 candidate for the presidency and warmly 

 urged his claims, to the keen delight of 

 the many who were mutual friends of 



Philip J. Haaswirth. 



far south of the center of trade, but Mr. 

 Reisig moved there, occupying a part of 

 the drug store on the Wabash avenue 

 side. This was not at first profitable, 

 and in July, 1892, Mr. Reisig, being well 

 along in years, turned the. business over 

 to Mr. Hauswirth, dying within the year. 

 Mr. Hauswirth later moved into a store 

 on the Michigan avenue side of the Au- 

 ditorium Annex, and has one of the best 

 stands in town and a rapidly growing 

 trade. 



For years Mr. Hauswirth has been as 



these two good friends, Kasting and 

 Traendly. It was certain that one would 

 make way for the other, and when Mr. 

 Traendly refused to permit his name to 

 bo presented, Mr. Kasting at once as- 

 sured him that if elected he would find 

 work for him to do. It was with this 

 in mind that he placed him on the exec- 

 utive committee, known as the board of 

 directors under the new by-laws. 



Mr. Traendly was born in Brooklyn in 

 1867. He took naturally to the florists' 

 business, his father having conducted a 



flower business at Fulton street and Fort 

 Greene place for many years. At the 

 age of 16 he was in the service of Fred 

 Donahue, on Fourteenth street, and later 

 was. one of the lieutenants with Thos. 

 Young, Jr., at 11 West Twenty-seventh 

 street. In June, 1893, he formed a part- 

 nership with Chas. Schenck, in the whole- 

 sale commission, business at 38 West 

 Twenty-eighth street, where they still 

 hold the fort and are adding yearly to 

 the large volume of their business. 



Mr. Traendly was for the past two 

 years president of the New York Flo- 

 rists' Club, of which he has been a mem- 

 ber for more than a dozen years. He is 

 big, jovial and popular, a tremendous 

 worker at whatever engages his interest, 

 and his administrations of club affairs 

 were the most successful in the history 

 of the organization. He is withal a 

 conservative, wise counsellor and will add 

 strength to the society's management. 



H. H. RITTER. 



H. H. Eitter, who takes the place 

 among the directors made vacant by 

 the selection of H. M. Altick as vice- 

 president, is a very modest man. When 

 appealed to for his portrait he pleaded 

 that he had not had his photograph 

 taken since he was a young man, but 

 he consented to sit and the accompany- 

 ing illustration therefore shows him as 

 he is, for it was taken less than a week 

 ago. As to the story of his career, 

 Mr. Ritter says that there is none, 

 save a brief narrative of the up-build- 

 ing of a very comfortable business at 

 Dayton. But those who know Mr. Rit- 

 ter are sure that the whole state of 

 Ohio contains no more genial citizen, 

 the S. A. F. few men more deeply in- 

 terested in its welfare and none whose 

 counsels will bo more practical or thor- 

 oughly considered. Mr. Ritter is vice- 

 president of the Florists' Hail Asso- 

 ciation. 



COLD STORAGE VALLEY. 



We are having trouble with cold stor- 

 age valley. In a lot of 2,000 about one- 

 fourth have thrown up good flowering 

 shoots with eight to twelve bells, but 

 without a particle of foliage. Others 

 are coming with foliage and flower and 

 are ready to cut, but about one-half have 

 made no growth at all, while the balance 

 are just beginning to show green. These 

 pips were flatted up and kept in a house 

 at 60 to 65 degrees for a few days, 

 then put in the forcing case with 80 to 90 

 degrees of heat under the flats, or about 

 75 degrees of heat in the sand in the 

 flats. These have been treated just as 

 we have before when ninety per cent of 

 the pips made salable valley and were 

 all cut within three or four days. Some 

 flats show one-third or more with flower- 

 ing shoots, other flats not over one-tenth. 

 We plant one and one-half inches apart 

 each way in flats five inches deep. We 

 have had success with the following 

 treatment: Four or five days in the 

 warm house without bottom heat, ten 

 to twelve days with 75 degrees heat in 

 the sand and four to five days without 

 bottom heat to harden off in a house at 

 55 to 60 degrees. We are sending you a 

 few pips, all taken from the same flat, 

 and would like some advice and the treat- 

 ment best to grow valley. W. B. 



After carefully reading the above it is 

 difficult to say where the trouble is. If 

 you have pursued the same methods that 



